Title
Approve Point-to-Point Car Sharing Policy
Outcome: Commission to provide recommendations to City council for approval.
Body
Transportation Commission
March 25, 2015
Item 5D
Action
Approve Point-to-Point Car Sharing Policy
BACKGROUND
Car sharing is defined as a membership-based service, available to all qualified drivers in a community, which allows members to make vehicle trips with the use of a rented vehicle without a separate written requirement for each trip. Unlike taxi and shared ride services, car sharing organizations require their members to be qualified, licensed drivers who operate the car sharing vehicles during the rental period. There are three types of car sharing:
* "Dedicated Space" - members make round trips from a dedicated location. An example is City CarShare mentioned below.
* "Peer-to-Peer" - members make round trips from a dedicated location near the car owners' residences so no special permit or City involvement is required.
* "Point-to-Point" - members rent an available vehicle and end the trip anywhere in allowed areas. An example is car2go.
In 2010, the City of Alameda began allowing City CarShare (https://citycarshare.org/) to use three different off-street public parking spaces on an exclusive, "dedicated" basis. One City CarShare parking space is located in the off-street parking lot on Central Avenue across the street from Alameda Theatre. Two other parking spaces are located in the off-street parking lot in the Webster Street Business District near Santa Clara Avenue. A City CarShare vehicle also is parked in the Bank of America off-street parking lot near Santa Clara Avenue and Park Street, which is a private parking lot.
In late 2013, car2go, which is a leader in point-to-point car sharing, approached Alameda about establishing in Alameda as well as in Oakland, Berkeley and Emeryville. Staff met with representatives from car2go who stated that they would like to have 200 to 25...
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